Low Gluten Hosts

CELIAC DISEASE: LOW GLUTEN HOSTS

Our liturgical documents state the: “The bread for celebrating the Eucharist must be made only from wheat.” For those with Celiac disease, this is a challenge. Over the past few years, some host-making companies have developed a low gluten host which contains less than .01% gluten. We will be using low gluten hosts made by the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, MO. More info on the hosts at
www.BenedictineSisters.org.

If you have gluten intolerance and would like to receive the low gluten host, go to the gift table as you enter church (behind the center pews, in front of the cry room) & follow the procedure below:

Before mass, using the tongs, place a low gluten host in the mini ciborium that is clipped onto the bowl of hosts.You MUST go to Father’s line at Communion and tell him you need a low-gluten host. Father will then give you the low gluten host from the mini-ciborium that has been consecrated.

Mini-ciborium

Gift table set up with Low Gluten Hosts

In order to ensure a safe distribution, we will only be offering the low gluten hosts at weekend masses (Saturday 5PM, Sunday 7AM, 9AM, 11AM), not daily. We will work to enhance this policy. The low gluten hosts have been improved over the years and taste and look like the real wheat hosts. Any questions, please contact the Parish Office. Sacristan Information